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the appeasement to Russia as a strategy to divide them from China, i wonder what Europe does tho. if the appeasement strategy works and it divides russia from china, what would Europe do?
Let's be clear that there is zero chance of Russia and China dividing here. What Kissinger did was exploit the existing divisions after Khrushchev denounced Stalin, he didn't create a rift out of thin air. Today, there is no existing division between Russia and China to exploit and their interests are very much aligned. What's actually happening is that we're seeing a division in the west.
and the leaders of both nations have really solid personal history showing that the west cannot be trusted and the costs if you do trust them. It will take 2 or more generations of leaders at least for the lessons learned by Putin to be forgotten.
exactly